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Are you goals weight loss or just a better life and stable blood sugar? With the steak, I started by 'getting two and not the chips' but soon found that my eyes were still set at the level my stomach was a month or so ago! One steak and some salad is plenty for me now. My pot belly is gone- BUT- I also gave up the beer, which helped immensely. Beer is full of empty calories. There's no reason not to enjoy a beer in moderation. Some people, particularly if training, do 'carb-ups' where they eat what they like a day a week, or a day a fortnight. Bodybuilding.com forums are a wealth of information on this. I used to do seven pints a night no problem. Now, there's no way I could face that so I do a whiskey in a pint of water. Bear in mind that alcohol stops any burning of body fat whilst your body processes it, so if weight loss is a primary aim then giving up the alcohol would be one of the best things you could do, along with eating Paleo. The most important thing that everyone must understand is that your body and tastes change dramatically. I couldn't imagine actually enjoying raw brocolli when I was my slightly chubby, carb laden former self. It's hard at first. But you will never want to go back.

That's because you're eating healthily as dictated by modern norms. Which are wrong. I was the same as you, eating four or five pots of cous cous or wheat and beans from the shop. It doesn't keep you full- cutting way down on the carbs, and cutting out grain carbs altogether will keep you full. I spend about £35 a week on all my food. However, I view food as fuel. I thrive on the same things every day. Typical shopping list for two weeks is 60 eggs, a whole pork belly including ribs, a pack of ground coffee, a pack of green tea, about ten items of green veg from broccoli to cabbage to kale, 2kg grated cheese, a pack of butter and twenty tins of makerel. Comes to about £70 I guess.

Simples: Get a plastic takeaway pot. (Buy in bulk from Bookers etc, about 1.5 pence each) Add a thin slice of butter and microwave till melted. Crack four eggs, add seasoning (I use black pepper and powdered garlic) and beat. Microwave till done. (about two and a half minutes) Whilst this is going on, the black coffee can be made and the tin of fish drained. Take the pot out of the microwave. Don't worry if it looks rubbery (to avoid this simply cook slower and stir frequently) because when you add the fish, a forkful of mustard and mash it up it gains the perfect consistency. Top with grated cheese, eat, throw away pot and wash fork. I can knock this up in five minutes start to finish. No mess, one implement to cook and eat. If I'm busy working all day after eating this I won't bother with lunch and genuinely don't get hungry till I get back to the yard at 4/5. There's approximately 1000 calories in it, so it will keep you going much longer than Steve's shake! If you want to hang on until you and the lads are at the cafe, no problem. Simply cancel the bread, hash browns and baked beans and replace with extra mushrooms, eggs and bacon. What's not to like? :thumbup1 @OnFoot- Before doing this, I could do black coffee but not black tea. Now I love black tea, and also green tea. No sugar, of course. Your taste buds will change dramatically, trust me. You just need to get through the first couple of months.

I also believe that you should be able to do Keto/Paleo without supplements.

So glad you, like me, have seen the light. Not come across Mark Sissons before, my initial thoughts are that he is primarily trying to flog his books and foods, somewhat like Weight Watchers. However, his synopsis here is golden. Everyone should live like this: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-infographic/#axzz2pQT50848 There are many more, free resources out there with no sales pitch whatsoever. Keto - Bodybuilding.com Forums is an excellent place for all things keto. To get started calculating your macros for Keto: Keto Calculator - Learn Your Macros on the Ketogenic Diet If you're really trying to loose some weight then you need to track what you eat, and don't lie to yourself. Keto is excellent for cutting as it keeps you feeling full, whilst at the same time switching (without the hunger pangs you experience when running on carbs) to burning body fat, so long as you're running a calorific deficit. Use something like this to ensure that you are: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/

OnFoot- simply give it a go. You will probably relapse and reach for the grains once or twice in the first few weeks anyway. After I had pretty much switched, I gave away all my cous couse, rice etc to family and friends. The main thing is to give it a go, and see if you feel the health benefits (You will!). The best thing is how fats and protein fill you up and keep you feeling full compared to grains. As I see it, that hardest bit for most on here will be eating seperately from the rest of the family. As I don't eat at home, and subsist at my yard on a diet of eggs, fish, pork, greens and cheese, it's pretty easy for me If you are someone who views food as fuel, you will do fine on this. If you are more of a foodie, then you'll probably waste too much time trying to find more recipies. I can't remember the last time I had anything other than a mustard and mackerel omelette for breakfast.

Do it It's much cheaper stateside.

Multimeter. Or take it off the machine, sticky tape it to a light bulb and switch it on (do that in the right order, and not on a metal workbench...)

Almost, but not quite. I went from 13 and a half stone to twelve and a half by going keto. Couldn't give up the mature cheddar, but there's not much lactose in that at all anyway. Eating natural is now the only way. If I eat some ice cream in the evening (usually when drunk, that's when I get a craving ) I have a sugar hangover in the morning. If I eat aspartamine (even chewing a pack of gum) I get terrible gas and the shits. The first two months were hard. Now, having stable blood sugar at all times is amazing. I genuinely crave leafy greens. I can taste sugars in brocoli. It's been life changing. The main thing with both Paleo and Keto is giving up the grains. Mankind didn't evolve to eat grains- the agricultural revolution of 10,000 years ago is only seconds on the evolutionary scale Keep it up Steve.

Have you anything you could adapt? Link box, tractor bucket? It literally just needs two bits of angle iron welded on at 45° to make a blade hooking point. Then it can go on either machine.

What's a screen with tiles?

IPA is a type of beer, not a company. Many breweries brew an IPA.

I doubt it will be anywhere near strong enough especially where it hooks over the frame. Need a metal skeleton of some sort I would say.

I'm not sure whether you'd be better with a little bit of weight to add traction? I'd also not be too keen on dragging it about with the boom- it would get annoying and would put a lot of wear on the boom as it would be hard for the whole setup to adjust to every little bump in the terrain as a hitch system would. That's about right! I was certainly expecting too much of my setup (terrain was awful, I had studs in the tracks and eveything) and I've since bought that little tracked dumper which is amazing. However, I still have the hitch arrangement and have on multiple occasions restrained myself from welding it to something else, as I know it will come in handy one day. Another idea Stephen, if it's just for buckets- I welded a couple of bits of angle iron onto an old tractor linkbox- now this can be picked up with the blade. Works really well. I also did the same to the pallet forks from my tractor. As I keep my buckets in a forklift crate this works great on site. Same cautions apply regarding overloading the track motors though- I don't know what's a safe limit.

There's a thread on here, search 'small scale timber extraction' In my experience, the digger will struggle. The load needs to be above the driven tracks/wheels to be effective. If you transfer too much weight to the blade to try to increase traction you will also be doing the track hubs no favours. In perfect conditions, OK. But it's never perfect ay? Think of all the times you're dragging something and loose traction, then have to anchor the blade and pull it towards you with the arm to overcome a bit of resistance before tracking again. That will the case also with the trailer. The hydraulic winch works well, I had a similar setup on my machine. Ditched it for a capstan in the end as couldn't anchor enough for a big pull with a small digger and too slow/short for smaller stuff!

That's a fair point, the increase in land value should make up for the drop in value from harvesting the trees if you get it right. An acre ready for clearfell will make much more than an acre of five year old trees.

Log suppliers are not generally known for getting on with the competition. Wood is expensive to move, so it stands to reason that people would have to be localish. Conflicts of interest etc. Some will be better at selling than others. Timber costs what it costs- there is a market value to it. I don't see that you would be saving money by owning the wood- making money, yes, when you sell the timber or log it and sell.

I reckon it might. I've used a mobile no worries inside a container before, container roofs are actually very thin.

Having used a basic GSM alarm system for three years with success, I've just purchased a system from these guys: Home Security Systems | Bullnet Systems® Total cost under £250 including 4 door sensors, 4 PIRS, a beam sensor and smoke alarm, plus a couple of vibration sensors. Indoor and outdoor wireless sirens also. I'm impressed. The instructions are Chinglish, and the sensor quality isn't the best but they all work and are very cheap. I shall be buying more, It's easy to set up once you've got your head around how it works- no wires, just pair the sensors with the unit and position them where you want them. I had it set up in under three hours- most of that time was spent working out the instructions! I even fixed one PIR covering the front gate and set it to 'doorbell'- now I get a 'bing bong!' whenever someone drives in. The sensor range was much better than I expected, it reaches fifty yards through a sleeper wall and then four feet of brick walls! It texts me to tell me which sensor has been triggered, and I will also connect it up to the landline when I get it installed. If you get a GSM-only one you can even use it as a yard phone. I am in a very poor signal area, it says no signal much of the time but manages to connect. I keep saying this- don't spend £250 on CCTV to capture grainy images of scum nicking your chipper, spend the money on something that will alert you to their presence. If anyone here is a registered alarm fitter, they are offering buy 5, get 5 free! ArbTalk collective perhaps?

Too right! He stitched my 15 year old self up with a McCulloch Double Eagle50- 'new old stock'. Yeah, twenty years old! **** saws, but I didn't know any better and it was cheap. Pete's a top chap, put me in touch with the bloke I bought my tractor from and gave me lots of genuine history on it. Shame I no longer live so near.

It handles 8" surprisingly well. Only straight processor timber mind!

That chipper is pretty rubbish but will do your job OK. It struggles to feed brashy stuff (only one top feed roller scrabbling against a mirror smoth floor...) but will be fine for straight stuff like hazel. Produces a nice sample on straight logs 2-6" but that's a waste of good wood. Quality rubbish but very simple and an orang-outang with a stick welder could fix it up (how do you think it was made?? ) But... I don't reckon you'll see your money back on your investment and the extra time/diesel taken to chip and transport vs. burning. If you need chip for your paths then someone one here will be able to drop you a load at the time you need it, rather than messing around with a mule and ton bags and storing it (how will you lift them??) If you want to use the smaller wood and see a return on it, then get one of those processors that shear it into small logs. Someone will remind me what they're called, I can't remember. If you must buy that Chinese chipper, then I'd wait until one comes up secondhand at half the price.

Then lend the OP the money to do so, interest free...

You get more bang for your buck with older trucks than you do with older arb gear, due to the higher prevalence and less specialized nature of older vehicles. Simples. If you had to run either a 2k LDV and a brand new chipper, or a brand new Transit and a 2k chipper, what do you think would give the least hassle/most profit? Image aside.

Disagree. The truck only gets you from A to B. Gear that earns you money should be the priority to purchase new/on finance if possible.